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Paul Smolders was a painter from a long Flemish tradition. After obtaining a degree in Germanic languages, he enrolled in an artistic education at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp. Isidore Opsomer, Julien Creytens and Albert Van Dyck were his teachers.
Smolders was a supporter of intimism and had a predilection for drawing and painting children, ballerinas, young women and sometimes landscapes. Terraces and motherhood are also recurring themes. His work has a dreamy atmosphere but is not anecdotal. He made many sketches and is described as 'an exceptionally good draftsman'. "Drawing was essential to him and meant par excellence the spontaneous processing of his thoughts.